Students tasked with writing critical or research papers will quickly learn that our databases are a gold mine for citations. Each comes with an impressive “works cited” line to include in those bibliographies. Your teachers will thank you.

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Unlike Google search results on topics like health, technology and consumer information, library databases never include info authored by salespeople, political thinktanks or straight-up wackos.

Bonus: Our material also comes with a real, live person – a librarian! Let’s say that an article you’ve read in a database cites further research that you can’t locate. Librarians are the bosses of locating research articles.

With just a few exceptions, the library’s databases are accessible 24/7 from any computer or device, with your library card. Didn’t know the library did that? Well, now you do. And knowledge is power.